Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood…
Did the Fowler's kids get the good bits?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids · What happens: do, get · To what, where: good bits
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1877 «Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood, saved by the Fairy» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fowler | det |
| 3 | Fowler | Fowler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 kids | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Fowler | case |
| 5 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 get | nsubj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Did | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bits | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bits | amod |
| 9 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 get | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | get | present | the Fowler's kids | the good bits | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1
yeah, the head and the heart, they got the best bits of the bird
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 head | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 head | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 head | det |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 heart | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heart | det |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 head | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 head | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bits | det |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 bits | amod |
| 13 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 got | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 bird | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bird | det |
| 16 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bits | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the head and the heart | the best bits of the bird | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus |
Option 2
yeah, the bread and the cake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 bread | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bread | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bread | det |
| 4 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cake | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cake | det |
| 7 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bread | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, the head and the heart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 head | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 head | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 head | det |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 heart | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 heart | det |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 head | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
nah, the Fowler's wife kept the head and the heart for herself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 kept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fowler | det |
| 4 | Fowler | Fowler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Fowler | case |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | nsubj |
| 7 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 head | det |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 heart | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 heart | det |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 head | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 herself | case |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 kept | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the Fowler's wife | the head and the heart | for wife | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
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